Vocabulary : Tinto to Tipper
Tinto : A red Madeira wine, wanting the high aroma of the white sorts, and, when old, resembling tawny port.
Tintometer : An apparatus for the determination of colors by comparison with arbitrary standards; a colorimeter.
Tintype : Same as Ferrotype.
Tinware : Articles made of tinned iron.
Tiny : Very small; little; puny.
Tip : The point or extremity of anything; a pointed or somewhat sharply rounded end; the end; as, the tip of the finger; the tip of a spear. ;; An end piece or part; a piece, as a cap, nozzle, ferrule, or point, applied to the extreme end of anything; as, a tip for an umbrella, a shoe, a gas burner, etc. ;; A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown. ;; A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf. ;; Rubbish thrown from a quarry. ;; To form a point upon; to cover the tip, top, or end of; as, to tip anything with gold or silver. ;; To strike slightly; to tap. ;; To bestow a gift, or douceur, upon; to give a present to; as, to tip a servant. ;; To lower one end of, or to throw upon the end; to tilt; as, to tip a cask; to tip a cart. ;; To fall on, or incline to, one side. ;; A light touch or blow; a tap. ;; A gift; a douceur; a fee. ;; A hint, or secret intimation, as to the chances in a horse race, or the like.
Tipcart : A cart so constructed that the body can be easily tipped, in order to dump the load.
Tipcat : A game in which a small piece of wood pointed at both ends, called a cat, is tipped, or struck with a stick or bat, so as to fly into the air.
Tipped : of Tip
Tipper : A kind of ale brewed with brackish water obtained from a particular well; -- so called from the first brewer of it, one Thomas Tipper.
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